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   https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/science/ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-2024-intl-   
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   The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts   
   of the research teams awarded the IG Nobel Prize on Thursday, some of   
   these questions – which you might not even have thought existed – now have   
   answers.   
      
   We now know that many mammals can breathe through their anuses, that there   
   isn’t an equal probability that a coin will land on head or tails, that   
   some real plants somehow imitate the shapes of neighboring fake plastic   
   plants, that fake medicine which causes painful side-effects can be more   
   effective than fake medicine without side-effects, and that many of the   
   people famous for reaching lofty old ages lived in places that had bad   
   record-keeping.   
      
   The awards – which have no affiliation to the Nobel Prizes – aim to   
   “celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative – and spur people’s interest   
   in science, medicine, and technology” by making “people laugh, then   
   think.”   
      
   In a two-hour ceremony as quirky as the scientific achievements it was   
   celebrating, audience members were welcomed to their seats by accordion   
   music, before a safety briefing warned them not to “sit on anyone, unless   
   you are a child,” not to “feed, chase or eat ducks” and to throw their   
   paper airplane safely. There were two “paper airplane deluges” during the   
   ceremony in which the audience attempted to throw their creations – safely   
   – at a target in the middle of the stage.   
      
   Among those collecting their prizes was a Japanese research team led by   
   Ryo Okabe and Takanori Takebe who discovered that mammals can breathe   
   through their anuses. They say in their paper that this potentially offers   
   an alternative way of getting oxygen into critically ill patients if   
   ventilator and artificial lung supplies run low, like they did during the   
   Covid-19 pandemic.   
      
   American psychologist B.F Skinner was posthumously awarded the peace prize   
   for his work attempting to use pigeons to guide the flight path of   
   missiles, while a European-wide research team was awarded the probability   
   prize for conducting 350,757 experiments to demonstrate that a coin tends   
   to land on the same side it started when it is flipped.   
      
   Jacob White and Felipe Yamashita won the botany prize for finding evidence   
   that some real plants attempt to mimic the leaves of nearby fake plants,   
   James C. Liao won the physics prize for demonstrating and explaining how a   
   dead trout swims, and a French-Chilean research team won the anatomy prize   
   for studying whether hair swirls in the same direction on the heads of   
   people in the northern hemisphere as in the southern hemisphere.   
      
   Live demonstrations to illustrate the experiments involved accompanied   
   some of the prize-giving, including when Fordyce Ely and William E.   
   Petersen were posthumously awarded the biology prize for exploding a paper   
   bag next to a cat that’s standing on the back of a cow to explore the   
   reasons for cows spewing their milk.   
      
   A Dutch-French research team also produced a live demonstration when they   
   collected the chemistry prize to explain how they used chromotagraphy to   
   separate drunk and sober worms.   
      
   Actual Nobel laureates presented the prizes to the ten IG Nobel winners   
   who all won a now obsolete Zimbabwean ten trillion-dollar bill, available   
   for $22 on eBay, and a “transparent box” containing items relating to   
   “Murphy’s Law” – the theme of this year’s ceremony and the principle that   
   anything that can go wrong will go wrong. On that note, some of the items   
   in the box were missing, presenters said, and the box itself was “almost   
   impossible to open.”   
      
   Conversation   
      
   Fontaine clusteurphuque   
   15 September, 2024   
      
   It’s been demonstrated repeatedly by politicians of all stripes that it is   
   common to talk through the ar_se, breathing should not be a surprise.   
      
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   We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
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   No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.   
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   Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden   
   fiasco, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed   
   dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.   
      
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